Lanczos Variational Principles Quotes

#1. Live a life that transcends your own!

Dalai Lama XIV

#2. If there are no stars on the sky, you must try to be happy with the shining streetlights!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it's hard to tell.

Gabrielle Zevin

#5. First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.

Renate Linnenkoper

#6. Some people take the spelling bee very seriously. These people are called "parents of children in the spelling bee." They're trying to make up for their own childhood of crushed dreams and misspelled words.

Craig Ferguson

#7. China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

Gary Locke

#8. Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

Dean Inge

#9. Filled with a new sense of purpose, I downed half my coffee at one draught. It was good, strong stuff, the kind that Louis L'Amour used to say could float a horseshoe. Nobody ever drank weak coffee in his books. It was probably why they were so anxious to shoot people at high noon.

Kevin Hearne

#10. A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. She was a very beautiful person who was missing something very ugly. Her winnings were the absence of something, and this quality hung around her.

Miranda July

#12. Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

Ruth Gordon

#13. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small;
He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!

Alexander Pope

#14. Living here where I live, on a farm way out in the countryside, in the woods, in fact, I have plenty of time to be alone, and I like it. I always have. I like my own company. And I am not the only one who feels this way; a high percentage of the Norwegian population feel as I do.

Per Petterson